The GENES Blog (GEnealogy News and EventS): Top stories concerning ancestral research in Britain, Ireland, and their diasporas, from Irish born Scottish based professional family historian, author and tutor Chris Paton. Feel free to quote from this blog, but please credit The GENES Blog if you do so. To contact me please email chrismpaton @ outlook.com.

Incidentally, FamilySearch has responded to criticism of the hiding away of it Wiki site in the new design, by making it more prominent - you can now find it on the Search Records page as a new option ('Wiki') - see top of https://familysearch.org/search